0.9 Solution to 'firefox -remote' problem

zba78 · Post by **zba78** » June 18th, 2004, 10:28 am

A number of people (including me) have posted here saying that in firefox 0.9 the old command

firefox -remote "openURL(URL, new-tab)"

will not work. The solution is actually quite simple (I have no idea why they changed it!!!)
the correct syntax is

firefox -a firefox -remote "openURL(URL , new-tab)"

i.e you need to add '-a firefox' after 'firefox'

Hope this helps, it works for me on SuSE 8.2

siruphi · Post by **siruphi** » June 18th, 2004, 10:51 am

thank you for this tip !

jwac1 · Post by **jwac1** » June 21st, 2004, 7:46 am

Works for me under Suse 9.1

Guest · Post by **Guest** » July 14th, 2004, 6:41 am

Worked for me also. Redhat 9.

WHY DO THEY CHANGE THINGS LIKE THIS?

What have we gained from "-a firefox"?